Synonyms of the word

promise

• n. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.
• n. (countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render…
• n. (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
• n. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has…
• n. (countable, obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• v. (transitive) To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
• v. (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

assure

• v. (transitive) To make sure and secure.
• v. (transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
• v. (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
• v. To reassure.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

commitment

• n. The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially.
• n. Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially.
• n. Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
• n. The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
• n. Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
• n. State of being pledged or engaged.
• n. The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.

declare

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
• v. (intransitive) To make a declaration.
• v. (transitive) To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though…
• v. (transitive) To announce something formally or officially.
• v. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result.
• v. (transitive) To affirm or state something emphatically.
• v. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income,…
• v. (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
• v. (transitive, programming) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing…

dedication

• n. (uncountable) The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
• n. (countable) A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem,…
• n. (countable) A ceremony marking an official completion or opening.
• n. (law) The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.

expectation

• n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
• n. That which is expected or looked for.
• n. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything…
• n. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
• n. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions…
• n. (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

forebode

• v. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
• v. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is…
• n. (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

hazard

• n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
• n. Chance.
• n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
• n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

hope

• n. (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
• n. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
• n. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
• n. (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
• v. (intransitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
• v. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
• v. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley…
• n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
• n. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

outlook

• n. A place from which something can be viewed.
• n. The view from such a place.
• n. An attitude or point of view.
• n. Expectation for the future.
• v. (transitive) To face down; to outstare.
• v. To inspect throughly; to select.

predict

• v. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge…
• v. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
• v. (intransitive) To make predictions.
• v. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
• n. (obsolete) A prediction.

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

prognosticate

• v. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
• v. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

venture

• n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
• n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
• n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
• v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
• v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
• v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
• v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• v. (transitive) To say something.